A newly-confident generation of curvy women are throwing away their inhibitions, determined to embrace the bikini bodies they were born with, writes Deirdre Reynolds.

Gardaí appealed today for members of the Romanian community to help trace a missing 12-year-old Roma “child bride”.

GARDAÍ will travel to Romania within the next few weeks in a bid to close the file on a child bride whose disappearance sparked a major missing persons alert.

HUNDREDS of young asylum seekers have “disappeared” after arriving alone in Ireland, it has emerged as gardaí continue the hunt for a missing 12-year-old Romanian girl.

Gardai were today searching for a 12-year-old Romanian girl, who is believed to have been smuggled into Ireland for an arranged marriage with an 18-year-old man.